Henry Viii

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English throne.

Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)
The Constant Princess (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #6)
The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3)
The Last Wife of Henry VIII
The Taming of the Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #12)
The Lady Elizabeth
The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7)
The Children of Henry VIII
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
Innocent Traitor
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YA & Middle Grade Tudor Fiction
129 books — 48 voters
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Children of Henry VIII by Alison WeirThe Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia FraserThe Tudors by G.J. MeyerThe Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir
Tudor non-fiction
211 books — 67 voters

The Red Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryThe Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn by Robin Maxwell
Tudor England Novels
44 books — 18 voters
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa GregoryThe White Queen by Philippa GregoryThe Constant Princess by Philippa GregoryThe Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa GregoryNefertiti by Michelle    Moran
Royal Fiction
544 books — 241 voters

Jane the Quene by Janet Ambrosi WertmanBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelI, Jane by Diane HaegerJane Seymour by Alison WeirPlain Jane by Laurien Gardner
Jane Seymour
13 books — 7 voters
Patience, Princess Catherine by Carolyn MeyerDoomed Queen Anne by Carolyn MeyerFatal Throne by Candace FlemingKatherine of Aragon by Alison WeirAnne Boleyn by Alison Weir
All I Need Is Six: Fiction
14 books — 1 voter

Philippa Gregory
Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.
Philippa Gregory, The Other Boleyn Girl

The whore or the saint: these seemed to be the prototypes set up by the Church's historic misogyny. But was there no alternative model to follow? Yes, for Anne had seen for herself that it was possible to be an independent thinker, set free from the pattern of sinful Eve or patient Griselda. She had been in the company of clever, strong-willed women like the Regent Margaret of Austria and Margaret of Navarre. The influence of evangelism had enabled women of character to take an alternative path ...more
Joanna Denny, Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

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